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• WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Munitions production: A woman truck driver transports heavy loads around a factory shop.

• Keep Death off the Road

  (posters) Made by: Keely, Pat (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the whole. The title is integrated and positioned in the lower third, in pink. The text is integrated and placed in the lower quarter, in white. The title and text are held within a pink border. image: a half-length depiction of...

• AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN BY WORKERS IN ENGLAND, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

  Dock workers take a break from unloading American Lend-Lease cheese from a ship to enjoy a lunch of American cheese sandwiches.

• AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN BY WORKERS IN ENGLAND, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

  A dock worker lunches on sandwiches made with American cheese. He is sitting on the quayside on a pile of cheeses which have been unloaded from an American Lend-Lease ship, at a dock somewhere in Britain.

• AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN BY WORKERS IN ENGLAND, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

  A dockyard winchman takes a break from unloading a cargo of American cheese, to lunch on sandwiches filled with American cheese.

• BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

  Four children help two lorry men to load large tins of Meredith and Drew Ltd. 'Welfare Biscuits' onto a lorry. A row of terraced houses can be seen behind them. In addition to the biscuits, boxes of Ministry of Food mixed vegetable soup (which can be...

• BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945

  part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

  Italian prisoners load sacks of sugar stored in the Falcon Spinning Mill, Bolton, onto a truck for dispatch to liberated Europe. They are pushing the sacks to the truck on barrows and are using a pulley to hoist the 'Sankey Sugar' onto the truck.

• FEMALE BUILDERS AT WORK, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  A group of female builders sit on a horse-drawn cart with some of their male colleagues on a building site, somewhere in Britain. They are listening to an address being given by a Colonel of the Royal Engineers, just back from Malta (not pictured).

• MUNITION TRAINEES TRAVEL HOME, UK, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  A group of female munition trainees queue to climb into the 'shooting brake' estate car which will drive them home from work. They are all holding handbags or haversacks and gas masks.

• MUNITIONS PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN, 1941

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

  Three war workers smile for the camera as they transport a large bomb on a wheelbarrow as it leaves a munitions factory, somewhere in Britain. The barrow is being pushed by a male worker, whilst two female workers pull from the front of the barrow,...